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Posted November 18, 2011
If you've been checking out the news on gaming sites around the 'Net, you've very possibly heard that GOG has announced some exciting news about our plan for 2012 and beyond.

In particular, there are three main elements that make up our announced path for the next few years: adding newer games to the catalog, focusing on continuing our impressive growth, and bringing exclusive game releases to GOG.com. There are a few common questions we've seen about this, so before we link you to some of these discussions online, we thought we'd create a quick FAQ for you.

Q: Oh no! GOG.com is never going to sell another classic PC game again and my favorite game never made it here!

A: Don't worry, GOG.com will continue to release classic PC games. We are, however, looking to expand the availability window of games on GOG, so we won't focus only on PC classics anymore.

Q: Isn't your name Good Old Games? It seems kind of silly to sell new games on an old gaming website.

A: We've always been about our core values: DRM-free games, flat prices worldwide, and extra goodies included in our releases. So don't think about us as "Good Old Games"; think of us as "GOG.com", and perhaps you can work your way around that objection. ;)

Q: I see your terrible plot! When you guys start selling games with DRM, I will leave the Internets in disgust and never return.

A: Don't worry: we're devoted to those three core values that we mentioned above, and we know that if we ever abandoned them we'd quickly become just another digital distributor. Our goal is to become the best alternative digital distributor out there: the guys who do it differently, who respect their customers, and who can help change what the industry is doing as a result.


If you have any other pressing questions about our future plans, feel free to ask them in the forum and we'll do our best to answer as many as we can. Keep in mind that we can't always answer questions you ask for a variety of reasons, so apologies in advance if you happen to ask one of those kinds of questions.
Posted November 18, 2011
Great! Keep on GOG.
Posted November 18, 2011
As one who voted to see newer games appear (as I'm boycotting anything requiring online activation, no other major digital distributor is suitable for me) I'm encouraged to hear this. Pricing is likely to be my main concern though, since I'm not willing to pay the same amount as a physical copy (as publishers save on fabrication, storage, transport and inventory management with digital, users should have a share in those savings too).

Others have suggested a split between "old" and "new" which I suggest could be difficult - today's "new" is tomorrow's "old" after all. However the "My account" page does need some redesign to show large collections better - I'd favour simplifying it (do we really need to see 300+ thumbnail images?) to one line of text per game - clicking on the entry then expands it to show all available downloads (if done with CSS, then people can change things with their own stylesheets and copy/paste the download links more easily).

Another thing - since GOG is now more "download manager friendly" (hurrah!) how about making the 2GB split on large files an option? Those who want fewer files to manage can then disable it.
Posted November 18, 2011
I am waiting.
Posted November 18, 2011
I'm still not happy about it. The community here has developed around a common interest in old games, and once that focus is lost the community is just going to end up like every other gaming forum out there.
Posted November 18, 2011
Pretty good news!
Posted November 18, 2011
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AstralWanderer: However the "My account" page does need some redesign to show large collections better - I'd favour simplifying it (do we really need to see 300+ thumbnail images?) to one line of text per game
But you can already display your collection like that, can't you? You've got the choice between a shelf of game covers or a listing of game titles. Personally, I like to look at colorful pictures. ;)

EDIT: Or did you mean removing the small thumbnails from the game title list, so the page loads more quickly?
Post edited November 18, 2011 by Leroux
Posted November 18, 2011
EnigmaticT, do you have any quality standards as a company, as far as the new games are concerned?

I am all for you guys selling non-DRM games regardless of their age, and I will keep supporting you, but I am wondering whether this decision means you will accept every publisher who wants you to release their games, and you end up releasing atrocities and games that generally suck - and admittedly, you have a few of this kind of games available already (they don't sell all that good), but these are old, a lot of people never really knew them, and can get away with it.

What I want to say is, are you (as GOG.com) in a position to reply with a big fat "NO" to a publisher whose game was pretty average and received mediocre reviews?
Posted November 18, 2011
PC Gamer has also reported on this, if you wanna add it to the list:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/17/good-old-games-maybe-not-so-old-anymore/
Posted November 18, 2011
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As far as I`m concerned:

I always took the "old" as the cake, the flat prices as the icing, the goodies as the wipped cream and the DRM-freeness as the cherry on top of that cream.

And if you tell me now , in future, I`m gonna get some "fresh" cakes with said icing, whipped cream and cherries, BESIDE the "old" ones...then good sirs...I`m your man!

Both thumbs up and all the best wishes to you and your plans to take over the internet-gaming-distribution! ;o)
Posted November 18, 2011
GOG happens to be one of my favourite online game distribution site, simply because it places "DRM FREE" in all its advertisements. That is the only thing I care about and I applaud GOG for sticking to it and working towards making DRM a thing of the past.

If GOG continues to be a driver for freedom from DRM in games, I would support it through and through. I don't care about the age of a game really. I would be an extremely happy camper if GOG were to be selling Skyrim DRM-free.

Side track: It was only yesterday that I had a problem with my internet getting DC'ed and I was horrified I cannot login to Steam's offline mode to play Skyrim. I had to tether my phone, just so I could login to Steam to enable offline mode (the irony!).This wouldn't happen if there is no DRM (aka the required Steam login) in the first place. I only realized later that I could just start tesv.exe from the steamapps folder.
Posted November 18, 2011
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swaimiac: The words "Good Old" are often used to show approval, emphasize reliability or as a general term of endearment, at least in US English parlance. For that reason, selling newer games on a site called GOG does not bother me...

Whatever your guys at GOG can do to increase revenue and keep bringing a steady stream of classics back is fine by me... except raising prices on the classics... that would bother me. :)
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Fred_DM: exactly.

i really find those objections due to the site's name silly. what about Steam? Valve doesn't only sell SteamWorks titles. what about Origin? most games sold on that platform aren't from Origin Systems.
I think if the word GOG was gibberish or didn't stand as an acronym, it might be a different case for me. I can admit it's kind of silly to bicker around that, but Good Old Games has built themselves a brand around that name elsewhere on the Internet - a site a that refurbishes old games - and making the marketing transition to Good Ol' Games will take some time. (Plus much of the time here is spent discussing the site itself because the community is so knit-together; I can't say for myself, but I get the idea that it isn't that way over at Steam or Origin.)

However, people do seem positive about the new games. Good Ol' Games is still the same acronym, and does denote something like "Good Ol' Boy" (although that phrase could be considered negative in some cases), so I think will start using that instead of Good Old Games or GONG. :)
Posted November 18, 2011
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book99: Keep games DRM free is all I ask. This is what makes GOG.com unique is the commitment to DRM free games.
With DotEmu around, GOG can hardly be described as unique in that regard.


As for the newer games thing, I totally support it. The only danger I see there is that there will likely be higher price range for newer games, which in the worst case will be used to older games too. But even if that happens, it is always possible for us customers to take our money elsewhere, as it is possible even now.

I know people who would like to buy all their games from GOG, regardless of age and platform, so for many users newer games and other platforms are very much welcomed.


And I for one would buy all Commodore 64 releases, if there ever will be any. :-)
Posted November 18, 2011
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ne_zavarj: Why do you guys want indie games on GOG ? Do you really need a 5th or 7th copy of Trine , World of Goo , Braid . etc. ?
YES. (Especially if Trine ends up having Zoya on the virtual "box". )

Joel of Frozenbyte, are you reading this?
Posted November 18, 2011
You guys will release any game exclusively now on the GFWL or Steamworks plataforms without these DRMs?, if not, this is a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad idea...
Posted November 18, 2011
Okay, I thought out a way to go around the whole "old" thing.

Fact: A game enters the arena. It's new.
Some time goes by. Variable x.
Fact2: Game no longer new. Therefore, old.

GOG.COM institutes official site policy: If x reaches anywhere over 1 second, game becomes old.

There we go.
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